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Agricultural GDP

03/04/2025 Go to Evidence

Almost 7% of LAC GDP in 2024 comes from agriculture, although its share varies significantly among countries (Conroy et al., 2024).

(Conroy et al., 2024).

Conroy, H., Rondinone, G., De Salvo, C. P., y Muñoz, G. (2024). Políticas agropecuarias en América Latina y el Caribe 2023. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013100

Agricultural support

03/04/2025 Go to Evidence

1.3% of GDP and 16% of agricultural GDP in LAC correspond to agricultural support (Conroy et al., 2024).

(Conroy et al., 2024).

Conroy, H., Rondinone, G., De Salvo, C. P., y Muñoz, G. (2024). Políticas agropecuarias en América Latina y el Caribe 2023. https://doi.org/10.18235/0013100

WFP Annual Investments

03/12/2024 Go to Evidence

USD 23.4 million was the annual average that WFP executed during the decade 2013-2022 in food purchases, logistics services and monetary transfers (Namdar and Saa, 2024).

Namdar y Saa (2024)

M. Namdar y C. Saa, “Las compras locales de alimentos como posible factor de desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe. Etapa 2: las compras inclusivas”, Documentos de Proyectos (LC/TS.2024/79), Santiago, Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2024.

Economic growth in decline

03/12/2024 Go to Evidence

0.9% was the average annual growth rate of Latin America and the Caribbean between 2015 and 2024, less than half of the 2.0% recorded during the lost decade of the 1980s (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL (2024)

Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Panorama Social de América Latina y el Caribe, 2024 (LC/PUB.2024/21-P), Santiago, 2024.

Economic impact of hurricanes

03/12/2024 Go to Evidence

More than 200 hurricanes that occurred between 1950 and 2014 cost the Caribbean islands an annual average of 2.5% of GDP (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL, 2024

M. Williams and A. Constable, “Climate change financing in the Caribbean: an analysis from a gender perspective”, Gender Affairs Series, No. 165 (LC/TS.2024/104), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2024

Climate finance needs

03/12/2024 Go to Evidence

USD 4.3 trillion annually must be reached by 2030 to avoid the most serious impacts of climate change, which requires a 20% annual increase in global financial flows (ECLAC, 2024).

CEPAL, 2024

M. Williams and A. Constable, “Climate change financing in the Caribbean: an analysis from a gender perspective”, Gender Affairs Series, No. 165 (LC/TS.2024/104), Santiago, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), 2024

Gini Colombia 2019

01/12/2024 Go to Evidence

0.86 was the Gini measurement in 2019 in Colombia (Fedesarrollo, 2024).

0,86 fue la medición del Gini en 2019 en Colombia (Fedesarrollo, 2024)

Fedesarrollo, 2024. La tierra para uso agropecuario en Colombia: equidad y productividad

Country: Colombia

Primary agriculture

06/11/2024 Go to Evidence

2% of GDP and 1.6% of employment in Canada come from primary agriculture, which has a greater economic contribution in some regions of the country (OECD, 2024).

OECD (2024), Agricultural Policy Monitoring and Evaluation 2024: Innovation for Sustainable Productivity Growth, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/74da57ed-en